Sarah Palin Made $15.85 Per Word at Fox News

During her three years as a paid contributor at Fox “News,” former half term Governor Sarah Palin made $15.85 for every word she spoke, according to a study conducted by Smart Politics:

A Smart Politics review of the more than 150 FOX broadcasts in which Sarah Palin appeared as a paid commentator from 2010 through 2012 finds that she spoke 189,221 words on air during this span, for an average pay rate of $15.85 per word.

Palin appeared on the network in studio, by satellite, by telephone, or in a pre-taped interview an average of once every 7.2 days during this three-year period, with the vast majority of those coming on two particular programs.

Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren both interviewed Palin 55 times, combining for nearly three-quarters of her appearances on the network over the last 36 months. (Note: the latter total includes interviews by Griff Jenkins and guest host Martha McCallum on Van Susteren’s On the Record program).

Though the number of appearances were equal, Palin spent a bit more time in the 9 pm EST slot, delivering 72,986 words on Hannity compared to 67,987 words while on On The Record with Van Susteren.

Overall, 74.4 percent of the words Palin delivered during her political analysis occurred on these two programs.

Palin generally avoided the more hard-edged interviewers on the network with less than 20 appearances before Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday (13,970 words) and Bill O’Reilly’s O’Reilly Factor (10,169) combined.

“Hard edged interviewers” on Fox? Uh…okay.

Anyway, you make the call - are Fox “News” and their viewers better off for this investment having been made? I say…absolutely! Roger Ailes and company know that Fox viewers demand vacuous analyses that confirms their own idiotic bias. And who better to provide vacuous analyses than Gov. Blood Libel herself?

Yeah, it’s hard to have Sean Hannity telling you’re great all the time and how everyone loves you and you should be president. I mean that would be tough for me because I have enough self awareness and don’t have Palin’s crippling narcissism but if you’re a narcissist like Palin………….

I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate who had to listen to all those hours of Pa(l)in and make a little tick mark for each word she said. That is cruel and unusual punishment by any measure.

As for FR, they have all given up on Fox News a while back. It’s now the same to them as MSNBC, CNN or any of the other networks, just another tool of the liberal MSM. The fact that it’s partially owned by Saudi’s just clinched it in their brains. I’ve seen a number of them proudly state that the only places they get their news is Rush and FR. (Then I have to just curl into a small ball and cry till the pain stops).

-469,000: copies of Going Rogue sold in its first week on the market. The memoir would go on to sell 2,670,000 copies in 2009.

-797,955: Copies of America By Heart, Palin’s second book, sold in 2010.

-$100,000: Palin’s speakers’ fee, as negotiated by the Washington Speakers Bureau, as of 2010.

-$200,000: The reported low estimate for Palin’s per-episode fee for Sarah Palin’s Alaska, her TLC show, which ran for a single season. One of the reasons the show ultimately wasn’t renewed? Palin’s salary demands for a second year.

-3.2 million: The average number of viewers who tuned in to Sarah Palin’s Alaska. She earned additional fees for the weeks she survived elimination.

-$15,000-$30,000: Bristol Palin’s range of speaker’s fees, as of 2010.

-$125,000: Bristol Palin’s base salary for her appearance on Dancing With The Stars.

-726,000: Number of viewers who tuned in to Life’s A Tripp. Unsurprisingly, Lifetime cancelled the show after two airings.

-5.24 million: The number of viewers who tuned in to the first episode of Stars Earn Stripes, a 2012 NBC reality show in which Todd Palin and other celebrities competed to earn money for charities of their choice. That number fell to 2.88 million by the finale, and the show has yet to be renewed.

I’ll have to find it, but despite earlier reports that she had decided to part ways with FNC, it wasn’t over creative differences or disagreements with the staff. No, it was because they were only willing to pay her far less than what she’d been earning since originally being signed and she wouldn’t sign a contract for less than that. Grifters gotta grift, you know.

Sarah Palin and Fox News are parting ways. Real Clear Politics was first to hear word from a source close to the former governor that Palin had decided not to renew her contract at Fox News. The cable channel later confirmed the news with the New York Times saying that several sources had described the split as amicable. It turns out that while Fox News did offer Palin a new contract to keep the former vice-presidential candidate on staff, “it would be hard to describe it as a generous contract,” reports the Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz. Although Kurtz doesn’t go into details, he says the new contract would have provided “only a fraction of the million-dollar-a-year salary” that she had been receiving.

I’ll have to find it, but despite earlier reports that she had decided to part ways with FNC, it wasn’t over creative differences or disagreements with the staff. No, it was because they were only willing to pay her far less than what she’d been earning since originally being signed and she wouldn’t sign a contract for less than that. Grifters gotta grift, you know.

And she claimed she was leaving so she could speak to a broader audience. Right. Step down from a national media gig into oblivion, and the audience is broader.

And she claimed she was leaving so she could speak to a broader audience. Right. Step down from a national media gig into oblivion, and the audience is broader.

Yeah the “broader audience” was sick of her by November 2008. Took many in the Fox audience four years to realize what most of us knew then that her act is lame and stale. And I bet her I’m always the victim act probably got too much for even them.

It just hit me!
My dog sleeps about 20 hours a day.
He has his food prepared for him.
His meals are provided at no cost to him.
He visits the Dr. once a year for his checkup, and again during the year, if any medical needs arise.
For this he pays nothing, and nothing is required of him.
He lives in a nice neighborhood in a house that is much larger than he needs, but he is not required to do any upkeep.
If he makes a mess, someone else cleans it up.
He has his choice of luxurious places to sleep.
He receives these accommodations absolutely free.
He is living like a king, and has absolutely no expenses whatsoever.
All of his costs are picked up by others who earn a living.
I was just thinking about all this and suddenly it hit me like a ton of bricks ~

I hope for that as well, but family/siblings pretty much rule that out.

A friend sent me a quote:

“If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.”

Yep. Eclectic Infidel was about Gatestone Institute having Fjordman on board as a “scholar” or something. LVQ had a meltdown in a thread about prejudice against obesity. Barflytom was in some taxes thread.

Yep. Eclectic Infidel was about Gatestone Institute having Fjordman on board as a “scholar” or something. LVQ had a meltdown in a thread about prejudice against obesity. Barflytom was in some taxes thread.

For completeness, Barflytom got the ban hammer for getting diverted from his taxation talking points to ranting offensively about gay people. Kudos to the Lizards that supplied the banana peels for that.

Apparently, many in France are taking Qatar’s plea for dialogue as a sign they support Ansar Dine. Truthfully, the only nation we should be in in that region is Oman. They seem to be the only nation with their head screwed on straight in the area.

Hell, Yemen is partially a basketcase because Saudi took a chunk of that country. Oman is the only sane man.

Also, the “breakup” of Ansar Dine is apparently a ruse to save Iyad Ag Ghaly.

Brief OT, but can I whine about clients who drive not only me, but my project manager crazy?

Send me the work that you want done IN ORDER and with some semblance of consistency. You’re the one telling me about your great, efficient system for organization and you’re ALSO the one who suddenly realizes that you didn’t send something to me that you should have sent two weeks ago.

This is why I’m glad my grad school professor talked me out of getting a CAPM and out of doing any kind of Project Management. If I had to deal directly with any of that nonsense, I’d set things on fire. I’m waaaay too short-tempered for that kind of work.

For completeness, Barflytom got the ban hammer for getting diverted from his taxation talking points to ranting offensively about gay people. Kudos to the Lizards that supplied the banana peels for that.

Barflytom is gone? No way?

How will I ever get through the day without the recommended daily allowance of RWNJ talking points?

How will I ever get through the day without the recommended daily allowance of RWNJ talking points?

Oh, hi, Buck!

The lack of RWNJ talking points is a problem. How does one get through the day without the comedy gold of someone arguing that anyone or anything sufficiently rich to be multinational should thereby be exempt from all US taxation?

This is what BFT appeared to be arguing for, in his more lucid moments, but it was hard to be sure.

Mississippi’s only abortion clinic said it received notice Friday that the state Health Department intends to revoke its operating license.

However, the clinic, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is not expected to close anytime soon.

Under a state administrative procedures law, the clinic can remain open while it awaits a hearing by the department. That could be more than a month away.

Clinic owner Diane Derzis said this week that she expected the notice about a possible license revocation.

Health Department workers inspected the facility Jan. 16 to see if it had complied with a 2012 state law that requires anyone doing abortions at the clinic to be an OB-GYN with hospital admitting privileges.

Derzis said local hospitals would not issue privileges to out-of-state physicians who do most of the abortions at the clinic.

Admitting privileges can be difficult to obtain. Some hospitals won’t issue them to out-of-state physicians, while hospitals that are affiliated with religious groups might not want to associate with anyone who does elective abortions.

“They were clear that they didn’t deal with abortion and they didn’t want the internal or the external pressure of dealing with it,” Derzis told The Associated Press on Jan. 11.

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, who signed the 2012 law, has said repeatedly that he wants Mississippi to be abortion-free and that he’d shut the clinic if he had the power to do it.

Except that even if this clinic closes Mississippi WON’T be abortion free. Abortions will just go from being legally done to being done in back alleys with coat hangers.

IT SHALL HENCEFORCE BE ORDERED THAT AMERICANS SHALL NOT UNLOCK THEIR OWN SMARTPHONES.

PENALTY: In some situations, first time offenders may be fined up to $500,000, imprisoned for five years, or both. For repeat offenders, the maximum penalty increases to a fine of $1,000,000, imprisonment for up to ten years, or both.*

They’re nuts. Same like Swartz facing what was it again? 35 years? Keep building those prison s because we’re going to need them. The sentencing for these stupid laws are getting worse almost every year. It’s not about right or wrong either it’s about a government that’s protecting the monied interests of corporations.

What? No iPhone? LOL. Off the shelf some of those run about $700. Can you imagine? Several dollars worth of electronics, case, and child labor (in some factories) and it’s allegedly worth an arm and a leg. Well, I guess child labor couldn’t even help Apple stay above Exxon.

What? No iPhone? LOL. Off the shelf some of those run about $700. Can you imagine? Several dollars worth of electronics, case, and child labor (in some factories) and it’s allegedly worth an arm and a leg. Well, I guess child labor couldn’t even help Apple stay above Exxon.

They sucker people in with phone and data plans. It’s amazing how much some people spend on those phones in the long run. Plus they’ve got people so addicted that anytime they release a new version they line up at Best Buy like sheep.

One thing’s for sure. I’m done with contracts for cell phones. I’d rather overpay for an off-the-shelf smartphone and then just pay month to month for the exact level of service I want.

Yeah, the only reason I even have a cell phone is my mother got me one as a Christmas present years ago. I lost the higher price one she got me after a year or so and replaced it with the $10 model which I paid for using the credits on my accounts for unused minutes.

CREDO mobile is a combination mobile provider/progressive activism company. They might be work checking out if you’re in their coverage map (which I’m not, being Canadian and all. Cell phone service options here are the worst of any in the developed world)

But what gets me on that law is what’s to prevent you from buying an unlocked phone over the internet? Hell, I can go to any pawn shop here and buy unlocked smartphones all day long. I can even buy them wholesale from China.